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China sends first medical and laboratory team to for bio-safety level III laboratory in Sierra Leone (Linked to Record ID#36373, #44339)

Commitment Year•2014Country of Activity•Sierra LeoneSector•Emergency ResponseFlow Type•Free-standing technical assistance

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2014
Start (actual)
Oct 1, 2014
End (actual)
Dec 31, 2015

Geospatial footprint

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The purpose of the project is to send the first medical and laboratory team to for bio-safety level III laboratory in Sierra Leone. More detailed location information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/314868716

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Government of Sierra Leone
  • People's Liberation Army of China (PLA)
  • Sierra Leone Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
  • Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation

Intergovernmental Organizations

  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Loan description

China sends first medical and laboratory team to for bio-safety level III laboratory in Sierra Leone (Linked to Record ID#36373, #44339)

Narrative

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Project narrative

In September 2014, China dispatched a 59-member Chinese medical and laboratory team to Sierra Leone to work with the bio-safety level Ⅲ laboratory it sent in the same month in response to the Ebola epidemic. This team consist of 30 epidemiologists, clinicians, and nurses from the 302 Military Hospital of China, as well as 29 laboratory experts from Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. These personnel supported Ebola response efforts for two months at the China-Sierra Leone Friendship Hospital, which was built in 2012 with assistance from the Chinese Government. In November 2014, the first 30 members from the People's Liberation Army medical team returned to China, the Chinese Ministry of Defense reports. The project was completed in December 2015. This is part of the third round of aid given by China to fight Ebola in 2014 (#36373). The bio-safety level III laboratory is recorded in #44339.